Shawn L. Bird

A plateau is a really great place to arrive at when you’re climbing a mountain. It’s nice to have a rest, settle in, admire the view. Eventually, you have to hoist the pack back on and strike out for higher places, more adventures, new experiences.

When you’re on a weight loss journey, a plateau can be a re-charging station. It can be the spot where you do some metabolic adjustment, slowly adding in foods you’d cut out during loss, and then stabilizing before cutting again and heading down.

Sometimes those plateaus are really stubborn. They send out tentacles and don’t let you leave. They become unsurmountable barriers that leave you frustrated as year after year you get mired there and are unable to move past.

Here’s to the perseverence that finally pushes off the plateau and with a shocking suddenness, deposits one down five or six pounds, landing firmly into numbers that haven’t been seen in decades. Wow! Celebrate the crashing past a plateau, because suddenly not only is the goal in sight, it’s as clear as can be there in the not to distant future.

Perseverence pummels the plateau. If you stick to the plan that works, it will get you there.